After tennis with Roland-Garros, football with Ligue 1! Amazon Prime Video acquired on June 11 80% of the television rights of Ligue 1. Round ball fans will have to pay 12.99 euros per month to have access to Prime Video Ligue 1 on condition of being subscribed to the Amazon Prime service ( € 5.99 per month or € 49 per year). It will therefore be necessary to align at least 17.08 euros per month (with the annual subscription) or 18.98 euros (with the monthly subscription) to watch the 302 matches exclusively on the Jeff Bezos platform.
Beyond the popular The Boys, critical success Homecoming , cults Community, The Office and Parks and Recreation and series packed with rewards like Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, here are 7 nuggets to discover on Prime Video to convince your spouse (e) who does not like football of the mutual interest of subscribing to the platform.
“I Love Dick”, a hilarious comedy about female desire
A nugget created by Jill Solloway (to whom we also owe the excellent series Transparent, one of the first Amazon Studios productions). Adaptation of the eponymous epistolary and feminist manifesto novel by Chris Kraus, I love dick follows the adventures of Chris (Kathryn Hahn, the villain of WandaVision), a New York independent director who follows her husband, Silvere (Griffin Dunne), to Marfa, both a lost and “rotten” corner in the middle of the Texan desert and “trendy” epicenter of American counter-culture. Sylvère, writer, began a residency there to “think about the holocaust”, under the mentorship of Dick, the man who will fascinate Chris. From the first glance at this manly, arrogant, dark and charismatic cowboy played by Kevin Bacon, Dick (who in English designates the diminutive of Richard and the slang term “cock”) becomes the object of all the fantasies of the filmmaker. The real Dick, not fantasized, (“real dick” means “asshole” in English) turns out to be misogynist: “Most films made by women are not so good,” he says to the filmmaker. during a conversation. “Sally Potter, Jane Campion and Chantal Akerman,” she retorts. Despised by the object of her desire, the director will, in order to channel her “obsession”, turn Dick, the object of her new artistic project, into an autofiction. I Love Dick thus establishes sexual desire as a sine qua non vector of creation. A hilarious and one-of-a-kind series on female desire.
“Counterpart”, a spy series mixed with SF
A sci-fi spy series with the dramatic maturity of The Americans (a masterpiece, all six seasons of which are also available on Prime Video)! This Justin Marks series follows Howard Silk (JK Simmons delivering a phenomenal performance), a simple employee of a United Nations spy agency in Berlin, leading a life of relentless routine. But his well-ordered life is turned upside down when he learns that during the Cold War, a mysterious event has divided reality in two. The existence of this second dimension is obviously the best kept secret in the world … Howard’s life will be turned upside down the day his counterpart, a self-assured and aggressive man, needs him to investigate a plot that touches the two parallel universes… The beginning of a captivating spy thriller and a fascinating double play.
“The Underground Railroad”, a moving work on slavery
There is no doubt that at least one scene or one shot The Underground Railroad will stick to your skin for the rest of your life! Oscar-winning director for Moonlight, Barry Jenkins, signs a powerful adaptation of the novel by Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, acclaimed by Barack Obama. This miniseries follows the flight of Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and Caesar (Aaron Pierre), slaves in a dish in the State of Georgia. To join the always elusive promise of freedom, they will discover the existence of the legendary “Underground Railroad”, historically, a network of underground routes used by slaves to take refuge beyond the Mason-Dixon line and up to ‘in Canada with the help of the abolitionists, allegorically materialized in the series by a veritable underground railway line. But Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) is determined to bring Cora back to the plantation, especially since he never reunited with Cora’s mother after she fled. Alternating masterful tableaux and scenes of staggering violence, The Underground Railroad shows how the wounds caused by slavery are struggling to heal in America today. A work as overwhelming, shocking as it is poetic.
“Red Oaks”, a tender schoolboy comedy
A marvel of comedy to be exhumed urgently! Red oaks, produced by Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green, follows young college student David Meyers (Craig Roberts) in mid-1980s New Jersey, who spends his summer at the plush country club of Red Oaks as a tennis instructor for the idle rich. . This distant cousin (and less whiny) of Dawson is a little lost: this aspiring director hesitates to return to his New York university at the start of the school year, his parents separate, his relationship with his girlfriend is failing and the daughter of his boss troubles him… What follows is a warm and sincere nod to teen movies of the eighties and nineties, supported by the presence behind the camera of directors Amy Heckerling (It’s getting hot at Ridgemont high school, Clueless) or Gregg Araki (The Doom Generation, Nowhere) and in front of the camera of comedians Paul Reiser (Crazy about you) or Jennifer Gray (Dirty Dancing), amazing in fifty years discovering late his penchant for women. Finding the right balance between schoolboy humor and deadpan, Red Oaks rises thanks to its gallery of touching characters in which we are really interested, all rocked by
an anthology soundtrack.
“Tales from the Loop”, an atypical SF anthology
An adaptation, not of yet another heroic fantasy saga, but of futuristic paintings and drawings by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. A work that caught the imagination of screenwriter Nathaniel Halpern (The Killing, Outcast and especially the co-author of Legion) which draws from it a touching and poetic anthology. All episodes can be watched independently with the exception of the last one, which joins and concludes several arcs started in the other episodes. All the episodes take place in a fictional small town in Ohio in a retro futuristic version of the 1980s where an experimental physics center studies the powers of the Loop (“The Loop” of the title), a kind of particle accelerator. , placed under the city, which offers the inhabitants a field of limitless possibilities. Each episode plunges a character (each protagonist ending up as a secondary character in the other episodes) in a supernatural situation caused by the strange machine: body swap, time travel, power to suspend time, etc. The opportunity for each of the heroes to highlight a deep flaw and lead to awareness in the manner of a tale.
“Undone”, a nugget of animation for adults
An unidentified serial object! Undone, animated series created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (BoJack Horseman) and Kate Purdy, follows Alma (Rosa Salazar, already digitized in Alita: Battle Angel), a young 30-something hard of hearing, who, following an almost fatal car accident, discovers his father at his bedside (Bob Odenkirk from Better call saul), who died 20 years earlier. He explains to her that she can now travel in time. She decides to use this gift to uncover the truth about her father’s death. All using the rotoscopy technique, as in A Scanner Darkly by Richard Linklater. From the touching dynamic between Alma and Jacob to the existential question of perception through melancholy and mental illness, Undone offers a new take on serial sci-fi that is proving to be as powerful as it is innovative.
“Mozart in the Jungle”, a whimsical dramatic comedy
A dramatic comedy as fantastic as its title! Mozart in the Jungle, a series inspired by the earthy memories of the same name by oboist Blair Tindall, takes place behind the scenes of the classic New York music scene of the 2010s. It all begins when the eccentric Rodrigo, a character inspired by Gustavo Dudamel and played by Gael Garcia Bernal, becomes the new conductor of the prestigious New York Symphony, in charge of giving a facelift to the formation. The young prodigy’s unorthodox methods are scrutinized and criticized by his predecessor, Thomas Pembridge, an aging master whose ego has grown steadily with age, played by British actor Malcolm McDowell, the unforgettable Alex DeLarge d ‘Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick. Among the new musicians, Hailey, oboist, realizes what is hidden behind the scenes … Over the episodes, Mozart in the Jungle plays his little music, which turns out to be a daring symphony of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll!